From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41983
Date: 2005-11-09
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:55 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] IIr 2nd Palatalisation (was: PIE voiceless aspirates)
> At 1:13:13 AM on Wednesday, November 9, 2005, Patrick Ryan
> wrote:
>
> > From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>
> >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >>> PIE *kw regularly produces OI <c>;
>
> >> Absolutely not. SOME instances of PIE *kW resulted in
> >> Sanskrit 'k', but others resulted instead in Sanskrit
> >> 'c', wherever a front vowel or *y originally followed.
>
> > How would you explain cá:yati from *kWei-(t-)?
>
> > You think the <a:> represents *e:?
>
> No. He thinks that 'a front vowel ... originally followed',
> namely, *ei. (Or possibly *e:y, if I'm reading Pokorny
> correctly.) Had you bothered to look at the .jpg that he
> recently uploaded to the Files section, this would be clear:
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Patrick:
How do you know what David thinks or does not think?
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